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Authority Who is the author/responsible for creating the website? What are their qualifications and associations? Are they: Recognised organisation (.org) Company (.co or.com) Academic Institution (.ac) Government (.gov) Wee Jimmy doing his school report! Search their name using a search engine – see what else they have written/created. Search the links in their web page – see the type of people who link to them and this will give you an indication of their authority. Can you contact them? (e.g. by ). Check any references/bibliographies included in the website. Cross check their facts with other sources.

Currency Check how up-to-date the website is by looking at the date it was created or updated. This is usually at the bottom of the page or click on FILE then PROPERTIES. Are the links on the site still active and how up-to-date are they?

Accuracy Cross check any facts (especially statistics) with other sources, including books. Check the content of the website for spelling, grammar and consistency. You have to decide if the website is suitable to your needs:- Aimed at children or adults? Easy to understand? Written for people who already have knowledge of the subject?

Bias Is the information biased in any way? People are biased when they give one opinion without looking at the other point of view. For something to be unbiased, it must give all the points of view so that you can make up your own mind. A website might be biased:- To advertise a product or service To change how you think

For the last few years, anyone doing a Google search for "Hitler" gets, as one of the first results, the "Hitler Historical Museum." This claims to be an unbiased site devoted to historical truth.

It is instead a neo-Nazi site. It is anonymous (the registered owner is "united. thought"). Its mailing address is a shopping mall in Herndon, VA. Many of its links are to other neo-Nazi sites, and its information is not entirely reliable. This site is also cited by other more reputable sites as being of historical use by someone probably as lazy as a Fourth year last thing on a Sunday night!

How to help? Whois.com Domaintools.net

How much to Google?

Real or not Real?